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if you caught my interview with doug peterson earlier this week he had this to say about his company'snfluence on investors. >> one of my visions is when you wake up in the morning you will want to know what do we think about what is happening in russia? what is happening with russia, crimea and ukraine? have we done a downgrade? melissa: we learnedrned about h rating agency's latest thinking when the s&p lowered its outlook on russia's rating to negative from stable because of the range geopolitical risk in western sanctions that are increasing as we speak against russia regarding ukraine crimea crisis. here is what happened. president obama imposed entirely new sanctions against moscow over russia's occupation of crimea. for the latest on those sanctions and how russia started hitting back, peter barnes, which we thought was interesting and the little bit ironic, you are joining us in washington. one of the things that struck me right away, vladimir putin has ordered that the clocks in crimea be turned to russia time. talk about holding the strings. >> the administration watching thi